Eccentric Quotes

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• I'd rather go with something eccentric - but beautifully eccentric.

  

  April Greiman
  • Eccentric
  • Beautifully

• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Spirit
  • Silly
  • Clever

• Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Character
  • America
  • Cute

• Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Imagination
  • Race
  • Eccentric

• It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Crazy
  • Rich
  • Eccentric

• The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Pretty
  • Weird
  • Ways

• I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fun
  • Tone
  • Eccentric

• Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Society
  • Way
  • Littles

• I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

  

  Andrew Hill
  • Crazy
  • Talented
  • Eccentric

• He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • History
  • Politics
  • Prince

• I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • People
  • Knows
  • Two

• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Design
  • Personality
  • Terrific

• We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Treated

• I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • I Believe
  • Knew
  • Eccentric

• I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Eccentric
  • Eccentricities

• Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

  

  Traci Bingham
  • Fans
  • Eccentric

• They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Ignorant
  • They
  • Avaricious

• This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • Numbers
  • Busy
  • Limits

• Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Realize
  • Fascinating
  • Rappers

• Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

  

  Regina Brett
  • Age
  • Wait
  • Purple

• I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Modern
  • Eccentric

• Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Justice
  • Chance
  • Average

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